Gamers, as a rule, like to pretend a great deal because it is infinitely safer than not pretending. We play games in which we fight, politic, and generally carry on activities that well and truly have little bearing on the reality of those activities. We hammer buttons and think that this makes us capable of weilding a firearm in actual war-like ( Read more... )

Just removed a bunch of folks from the Friends list. Some were not so disappointing to let go; they apparently did not wish to see what I was saying either, and given their own repetitious rhetoric on things, I was truthfully no longer interested in hearing them anymore myself. Others have been inactive for a year or more, and I assume they've ( Read more... )

Saw both Transformers and Harry Potter last night; the movies were almost literally back-to-back time-wise, just on different screens. They were watched at the Malco Grandview in Madison, so the equipment (and concession stand) was top notch ( Read more... )

Recently, I was harshly reminded that if you don't share someone's political views, your opinions just don't matter. No, it's okay. I understand now, see ( Read more... )

I turn 31 today, at approx. 8:00 PM or so ( Read more... )

There is a show, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, entitled "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?". If someone can beat 5th-grade knowledge, they can win a million dollars ( Read more... )

This is not directed at anyone in particular, but seems like a quote I should write down and remember ( Read more... )

I'm not going to be around LJ for a while, I guess. People not only don't want my opinion, but I'm not going to clog up other people's Friends list (if I'm even still on any of them) with my depressing bullshit. I wouldn't want to burden the world with my problems. I mean, fuck, I guess if I'm not a happy little son of a bitch who just shuts up ( Read more... )

Oh, what an idiot I can be sometimes. I guess it's my fault; pride goeth before the fall, and I never said I was more than human. But the fact remains: the absence of negative emotion when the fiancee broke it off with me wasn't because I was over it. Like any good fire, it had to smoulder a while, let my mind explore the many possible paths in ( Read more... )

It's been about two weeks or so now, and after careful analysis, I have concluded that my prospects are poor. I had at a few ideas in mind, but one of them is pretty much not going to happen unless Hell freezes over; it would appear that there is a "friendship" thing at work there that can't be broken through. I think it's bullshit (how the fuck ( Read more... )